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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Aby Warburg und die Religionskulturen
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Der Hamburger Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftler Aby Warburg (1866–1929) ist nicht nur Gründer der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Bibliothek Warburg (KBW), sondern bis heute Stichwortgeber für die Forschung vieler geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlicher...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Welt in Weimar. Goethes »Römische Elegien« und die augusteische Dichtung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Dissertationsprojekt beschäftigt sich mit Johann Wolfgang Goethes Römischen Elegien (1795). Mit dem Gedichtzyklus stellt sich Goethe explizit in die Gattungstradition der augusteischen Liebeselegie (insbesondere Properz und Ovid). Zudem sind...

    Fields of research Elegy,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
    Die wandernden Grenzen der Biologie
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt schließt an die bereits vorliegenden begriffsgeschichtlichen Untersuchungen im Historischen Wörterbuch der Biologie an; anders als in diesem Wörterbuch stehen aber nicht die biologischen Grundbegriffe im Mittelpunkt, sondern die...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 17.05.2019
  4. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 26.05.2019
    Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Medienkulturwissenschaft (65%), Universität Freiburg
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Stellenausschreibung: wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Medienkulturwissenschaft (65%) (Institut für Medienkulturwissenschaft, Universität Freiburg, zum 01.07.2019, Bewerbungsschluss: 26.05.2019) --- Am Institut für Medienkulturwissenschaft der...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies,  Literature and media studies and 3 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
    Caricatures of Man-Made Nature: Reflections on Environmental Change in German Magazines from the Era of Industrialization
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    My research project focuses on a selection of long-forgotten caricatures that appeared in literary and satirical magazines during the era of industrialization. These caricatures depict man-made environmental transformations and address their...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and visual studies and 4 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  6. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 31.05.2019
    Naturkraft. Wissensgeschichtliche Annäherung an ein Begriffsfeld
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vortrag & Workshop // Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (31.05.2019) In Kooperation mit der Graduate School of Humanities (Würzburg) und der DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Imaginarien der Kraft" (Hamburg) Über 'Naturkraft' wurde...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology,  Aesthetics and 3 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Wien
    Ludwig Tiecks Bibliothek. Anatomie einer romantisch-komparatistischen Büchersammlung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Forschungsprojekt Ludwig Tiecks Bibliothek. Anatomie einer romantisch-komparatistischen Büchersammlung rekonstruiert seit 2014 virtuell die Bibliothek des deutschen Romantikers Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853). Tiecks Büchersammlung – so die zentrale...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Wien
    Zensur der italienischsprachigen Literatur in der Habsburgermonarchie, 1750-1918
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    An der Schnittstelle zwischen italienischer Literaturgeschichte und der Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie, politisch vom Widerspruch zwischen Einigungsbemühungen und nationalistischen Tendenzen geprägt, versucht unser Projekt eine umfassende...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Italian literature,  Literary historiography and 3 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Basel
    Wirkungsgeschichte von Goethes Werk „Zur Farbenlehre“ in Berlin 1810-1832
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ziel des Projekts ist die Untersuchung der Rezeption von Goethes 1810 erschienenem Werk „Zur Farbenlehre“ in Berlin in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 19. Jahrhunderts. Goethe selbst hat der Nachwelt die Ansicht überliefert, sein Werk sei vor allem...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Digital Humanities,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Universität Zürich (Uzh)
    Welt im Winkel. Idylle als Denkraum in der Prosa des Realismus
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Spätestens seit Jean Pauls Definition in der Vorschule der Ästhetik (1813) hat sich die überlieferte Gattung der Idylle aus ihren arkadischen Szenerien herausgelöst: Für die Idylle ist der Schauplatz gleichgültig, "ob Alpe, Trift, Otaheiti, ob...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Université de Genève (UNIGE) / University of Geneva
    Luxus und Moderne: Die Ambivalenz des Überflüssigen in Kulturkonzeptionen der Literatur und Ästhetik seit dem 18. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das Projekt untersucht die ebenso fundamentale wie ambivalente Rolle des Luxus für die moderne Konzeption von Kultur seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, indem es literarische und ästhetische (d.i. kunst- / literaturtheoretische) Luxus-Darstellungen analysiert...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics and 3 more
    Created on: 24.05.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Tasmania (UTAS)
    Antarctic Imaginations: A Study of Creative Responses to the Continent for Science
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Antarctica has for two centuries been the subject of numerous novels, poems and plays, both by writers who have never seen the continent, and by expeditioners and explorers themselves. Apart from a small number of canonical nineteenth-century texts,...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Gothic Fictions: Emotion, Contagion, and the Transformation of Experience in Modernity
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gothic Fiction is the most important prose genre of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Drawing on recent developments in cultural theory, this project is the first to study Gothic Fiction as a literary system, marked by its...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Melbourne
    Architectures of Imagination: Bodies, Buildings, Fictions, and Worlds
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores the roles played by fiction and imagination in the production of space during the long eighteenth-century (1700-1835), through studies of key buildings (the list includes Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, William Beckford’s...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  15. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Network: Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
    Network: Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Institutions of Literature, 1700-1900’ is a research network studying the rise of literary institutions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and considering their ongoing influence in modern literary culture. It is funded by the Arts and...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  16. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Birmingham
    Narrativising Dinosaurs: Science and Popular Culture from 1850 to the Present
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Encountering dinosaurs is a routine experience for most of us. They tower over us in museums, entertain us in books and films, and peer out at us from our cereal boxes. Though increasingly well-understood from a scientific standpoint, dinosaurs are...

    Fields of research Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science and 3 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  17. Category: Projects
    Institutions: University of Plymouth
    Imagining Alternatives: Utopia, Community and the Novel, 1880-2015
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores how the novel has been used since the late nineteenth century to imagine better forms of community, and the problems and opportunities revealed by such attempts. Insights from this research are employed with local communities,...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century and 2 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  18. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 18.07.2019
    Lebenskunst nach Leopardi. Anti-pessimistische Strategien im Werk Giacomo Leopardis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Leopardi-Tag 2019 Internationale Tagungder Deutschen Leopardi-Gesellschaft und der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Leopardis Dichtung und Philosophie werden gemeinhin als ausschließlich oder zumindest überwiegend pessimistisch...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  19. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 10.06.2019
    Offre de contrat doctoral au sein d’un projet de recherche sur l’opéra-comique pendant la Révolution française
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Offre de contrat doctoral au sein d’un projet de recherche sur l’opéra-comique pendant la Révolution française Le Département de littérature et de langue de l’Université des sciences et techniques de Norvège offre un contrat doctoral de trois...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  20. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
    Reine Form. Formalistische Ästhetik und formalistisches Wissenschaftsprogramm im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776 - 1841) beeinflusste mit seiner Ästhetik das Denken seiner Zeit, formulierte er doch eine entschiedene Gegenposition zur Gehaltsästhetik und wirkte mit seinem mit der Ästhetik verbundenen Wissenschaftsprogramm auf das...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Aesthetics,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 27.05.2019
  21. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Odyssean Travels: A Literary History of Modern Memory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The "Odyssey" is one of the best-remembered stories in world literature and world history. This 'old' story has been used across almost three millennia, again and again, as a resource to tell new stories, and to represent a broad spectrum of very...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 31.05.2019
  22. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Bear traces: a study of the bear in national romantic literature around the Baltic Sea
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The bear is the Nordic region’s largest predator and at the same time one of its most mythical animals. The bear has left traces in ancient religion, place names, linguistic expressions, and literature. Nature and animals can, therefore, be said to...

    Fields of research Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine),  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  23. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Södertörn University Stockholm
    Subject Comparative Literature, Södertörn University Stockholm
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Research in the subject of Comparative Literature has a particular focus on literature from the long 19th century. It brings together researchers who are interested in the aesthetics of the 18th century, the relationship between humans and...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  24. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University (UU)
    Goethe's Writings on Aesthetics and the Epistemic Transformations in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The aim of the project is to investigate the role of Goethe's writings on aesthetics in the profound epistemic, philosophical, aesthetic, and scientific transformations during the so-called "Age of Goethe". Focusing on the concept of aesthetic...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Aesthetics,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  25. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Lunds Universitet / Lund University
    The Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel from Stendhal to Zola
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The purpose is to study how the cosmopolitan/vernacular dynamic is represented in novels by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert and Zola, at a thematic, intratextual level as well as in translations of the novels into Swedish and in their reception in Sweden....

    Fields of research French literature,  World Literature,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019